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		<title>Steuern und Oasen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was haben Griechenland, Argentinien und Nigeria gemeinsam? Sie waren oder sind Opfer massiver Steuerflucht. Über 50 Prozent aller illegalen Transaktionen werden nur getätigt, um Steuern zu vermeiden. Diese illegalen Finanztransaktionen stellen ein großes Problem für sog. Entwicklungsländer wie für Industrieländer dar.]]></description>
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<p>Was haben Griechenland, Argentinien und Nigeria gemeinsam? Sie waren oder sind Opfer massiver Steuerflucht. Über 50 Prozent aller illegalen Transaktionen werden nur getätigt, um Steuern zu vermeiden. Diese illegalen Finanztransaktionen stellen ein großes Problem für sog. Entwicklungsländer wie für Industrieländer dar. Vor allem Preismanipulationen, aber auch Kapitalflucht und Korruption sind dafür verantwortlich. (www.vidc.org)</p>
<p>Podiumsdiskussion:</p>
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<li>Grace Perez-Navarro | Stv. Direktorin, Zentrum für Steuerpolitik und Steuerverwaltung, OECD (Paris)</li>
<li>Dereje Alemayehu | Vorsitzender, Tax Justice Network Africa (Nairobi)</li>
<li>Michael Lang | Vorstand, Institut für Österreichisches und Internationales Steuerrecht, WU (Wien)</li>
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<p>Eine Veranstaltung des <a title="Vienna Insitute for International Dialogue and Cooperation" href="http://vidc.org" target="_blank">VIDC</a>, <a href="http://www.hausdermusik.at/" target="_blank">Haus der Musik</a>, 17. Jänner 2012</p>
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		<title>Blood in the Mobile</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coltan and war economy - How much blood is in my mobile? The main part of minerals used to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II.]]></description>
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<h2>Coltan and war economy &#8211; How much blood is in my mobile?</h2>
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<td width="600"><em>Organized by <a title="Zur Website des VIDC" href="http://vidc.org" target="_blank">VIDC</a>, </em>Votiv Kino Vienna<em>, November 8th 2011</em></td>
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<p><strong>Film talk with:</strong></p>
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<li>Frank Piasecki Poulsen, director and script writer &#8211; <a href="http://etalks.tv/?p=10535" target="_blank">Bio</a></li>
<li>Mike Morris, Head of <a href="http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/prism/&lt;" target="_blank">PRISM</a> &#8211; <a href="http://etalks.tv/?p=10553" target="_blank">Bio</a></li>
<li>Tim Steinweg, researcher at <a href="http://somo.nl/&lt;" target="_blank">SOMO</a> &#8211; <a href="http://etalks.tv/?p=10559" target="_blank">Bio</a></li>
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<p><strong>Moderation</strong></p>
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<li>Franz Schmidjell, VIDC</li>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;" width="600"><strong>Background</strong>We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side.The main part of minerals used to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 years the conflict has cost the lives of more than 5 million people and 300.000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals.If you ask the phone companies where their suppliers get minerals from, none of them can guarantee that they aren’t buying conflict minerals from the Congo.The Documentary <em>Blood in the Mobile </em>shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.After visiting the mine Frank Poulsen struggles to get to talk to Nokia, the Worlds largest phone company. Frank Poulsen wants them to guarantee that they are not buying conflict minerals and thereby is financing the war in the Congo. Nokia cannot give him that guarantee.<em>Blood in Mobile</em> is a film about our responsibility for the conflict in the Congo and about corporate social responsibility.<a href="http://bloodinthemobile.org/">http://bloodinthemobile.org/</a><a href="http://bloodinthemobile.org/"><br />
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</strong>A cooperative event by the <strong>Austrian Research Foundation for International Development &#8211; ÖFSE </strong>and <a href="http://www.vidc.org/en/"><strong>VIDC &#8211; Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation</strong></a></td>
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<p><strong>Weblinks:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://somo.nl/&lt;" target="_blank">Center for Research on Multinational Corporations</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/prism/&lt;" target="_blank">Policy Research in International Services and Manufacturing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bloodinthemobile.org/the-film/watch-the-film/&lt;" target="_blank">Website &#8211; Blood in the Mobile</a></li>
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		<title>The Rights of Digital Citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook, Google and Cyber Crimes: New Challenges to EU Fundamental Rights in the Digital Era.]]></description>
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<p>Contributed by the <a title="Go to the Research platform's website" href="http://human-rights.univie.ac.at/" target="_blank">Research Platform for Human Rights in the European Context</a></p>
<p>Panel discussion with Peter Hustinx (data protection supervisor of the EU), Bernhard Hoetzl (<a href="http://123people.com" target="_blank">123people.com</a>) Hannes Tretter (expert for data protection, director of the <a href="http://bim.lbg.ac.at/en" target="_blank">Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights</a>, deputy chairman of the management board of the <a href="http://www.fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/home/home_en.htm" target="_blank">EU Fundamental Rights Agency</a>) and Waltraut Kotschy (expert on information privacy, former head of the Austrian Data Protection Commission, project manager of TWINNING).</p>
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<h3>The Rights of Digital Citizens. Facebook, Google and Cyber Crimes:</h3>
<h4>New Challenges to EU Fundamental Rights in the Digital Era</h4>
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<p>After introducing the speakers, Hannes Trettner presents the new <a title="Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights - Yearbook 2011" href="http://bim.lbg.ac.at/en/yearbook-human-rights/yearbook-human-rights-2011-published" target="_blank">&#8220;Yearbook Human rights 2011&#8243;, titled &#8220;Nothing to hide-Nothing to fear&#8221;</a> to the audience, which is a cooperation between the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights and the German Institute of Human Rights in Berlin. Among other things it deals with the new challenges in a digital world.</p>
<p>The digital era is our daily reality and is affecting everybody today. The internet is a global driver for positive developments, but it also has a profound influence on our rights as citizens. The developments are not subject to democratic decisions and are extremely relevant. Facebook, Google and Cybercrime are symbols and trends of these developments. Peter Hustinx stresses the need for global standards.</p>
<blockquote><p>New developments in the digital era are not subject to democratic decisions.</p></blockquote>
<p>The business models of facebook and co. rely on dealing with the data of their users. The users need to push the big players to use their personal data in accordance with data protection rules. Waltraud Kotschy therefore calls for &#8220;ethical marketing&#8221;, where the companies don&#8217;t use all the data they collect. She also points to the problem of the private abuse of private data in eg. Facebook (eg. cybermobbing).</p>
<blockquote><p>Identity Theft and Character Assasinations</p></blockquote>
<p>Bernhard Hoetzl, head of <a title="Go to 123people.com Website" href="http://www.123people.com/" target="_blank">123people.com</a>, presents the corporate perspective on data protection issues. For his company, data protection is not the real issue, but the more urgent topics are copyright, people protection laws, identity theft and character assasinations.</p>
<p>Hannes Trettner is irritated by companies like Facebook and the European Union. He asks, if it really is necessary to store data from mobile phones and internet usage of people in advance for crime fighting reasons? Isn&#8217;t that creating a fearful atmosphere in the public?</p>
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		<title>Geld, Zins, Marktwirtschaft &amp; Gesellschaft: Zeitgeist Premiere</title>
		<link>http://etalks.tv/blog/2011/01/23/geld-zins-marktwirtschaft-gesellschaft-zeitgeist-premiere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Das Zeitgeist Movement Österreich lud ins Votivkino zur Premiere des 3. Teils der Zeitgeist-Serie von Regisseurs Peter Joseph: "Zeitgeist - Moving Forward".  Danach folgte eine Diskussion um das Geldsystem, die Zukunft der Gesellschaft und mehr.]]></description>
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<h2>&#8220;Es gibt Alternativen. Trauen wir uns, sie zu denken.&#8221;</h2>
<p><em>Österreichpremiere, Votivkino, Wien, 20.1.2011</em></p>
<p>Das <a title="Go to zeitgeist-movement.at" href="http://zeitgeist-movement.at" target="_blank">Zeitgeist Movement in Österreich</a> lud ins Votivkino zur Österreichpremiere des dritten Teils der <a title="Zum Video-Stream der Zeitgeist Filme" href="http://http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/" target="_blank">Zeitgeist-Serie</a> des in New York ansässigen Regisseurs Peter Joseph: &#8220;Zeitgeist &#8211; Moving Forward&#8221;.  Nach der ausverkauften Vorführung folgte eine Diskussion mit Prof. <a title="Biographie Franz Hörmann" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9147" target="_blank">Franz Hörmann</a> (WU Wien), <a title="Biographie Christian Felber" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9189">Christian Felber</a> (Gemeinwohlökonomie, Demokratische Bank), <a title="Biographie Karin Schönpflug" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9200" target="_blank">Karin Schönpflug</a> (feministische Ökologin), Franz Nahrada (Soziologe, Vernetzer) und <a title="Biographie Nicole Lieger" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9217" target="_blank">Nicole Lieger</a> (Lehrbeauftragte am Juridicum Wien).  Die Moderation macht Johannes Kaup (Radio Ö1; Psychotherapeut; Sendungen z.B.: Im Zeit-Ton).</p>
<p>Franz Nahrada zeigt  einen wesentlichen  Selbstwiederspruch des Zeitgeist-Movement: Gerade die im Film erwähnte  <a title="Ressourcenbasierte Wirtschaft - Venus Project" href="http://www.thevenusproject.com/de/ein-neues-sozialsystem/ressourcenbasierte-wirtschaft" target="_blank">ressourcenbasierten Wirtschaft</a> wird nicht einer wissenschaftlicher Falsifikation unterworfen. Er weist darauf hin, dass eine wichtige Priorität doch in &#8220;Laboratorien für gesellschaftlichen Wandel&#8221;  liegen müsse. So sollte man dieses Modell testen, herzeigen, verbessern und korrigieren. Weiters sei die Umsetzung eines einzigen Modells für alle Bewohner der Erde für Nahrada prinzipiell nicht anstrebbar. Der Wunsch der 50er Jahre nach technologischen Wunderstädten sei überholt.</p>
<p>Für <a title="Biographie Nicole Lieger" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9217" target="_blank">Nicole Lieger</a> liegt die Lösung zu einer postitiven Entwicklung in der Vernetzung der Menschen. Denn das Verständnis der eigenen Unvollkommenheiten ist für die Ökologien eine wesentliche Grundannahme. Der Film zeige ihr zu viele fertige Lösungen, die die Menschen nicht mehr beteilige. Die Geschichte zeige ständige Veränderungen, die sie im Film als nicht gewollt ansah. Schönpflug warnt vor einer Utopie, die in den Totalitarismus münden könne.</p>
<p><a title="Biographie Christian Felber" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9189" target="_blank">Christian Felber</a> war schlecht &#8211; nicht nur wegen der Überlänge des Films sondern auch wegen der fehlenden Frauen. Er wies auf die einzige Frau unter den teilnehmenden InterviewpartnerInnen hin. Der WU-Lektor und Mitbegründer von Attac Österreich sah eine  &#8221;Wiederauferstehung des mechanistischen Denkens unter der Maske der Ideologiefreiheit&#8221;.  Ein globales Ressourcenmanagement finde er jedoch eine mögliche und positive Entwicklung. Die fehlende politische Perspektive sei ein &#8220;Bärendienst&#8221; an anderen Initiativen.</p>
<p>Für <a title="Biographie Karin Schönpflug" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9200" target="_blank">Karin Schönpflug</a> war der Film das Gegenteil einer utopischen Vorstellung. Der Film sei teilweise ein Plagiat und die ursprüngliche Botschaft verzerrt. Für sie zeige der Film &#8220;technokratische Fantasien&#8221;. Die Vorstellung, zusammen eine andere Gesellschaft zu entwerfen, sei absurd und unrealisierbar.</p>
<p><a title="Biographie Franz Hörmann" href="http://etalks.tv/?p=9147" target="_blank">Franz Hörmann</a>, dessen <a title="Zum Interview" href="http://derstandard.at/1285200656759/derStandardat-Interview-Banken-erfinden-Geld-aus-Luft" target="_blank">Standard-Interview</a> unter den drei meistgelesensten Online-Artikel 2010 war, gibt Alternativen zum derzeitigen Geld- und Wirtschaftssystem, welche Eigentum nicht mehr belohnen. Alternative Geldsystem stehen der Bevölkerung &#8220;auf Knopfdruck&#8221; zur Verfügung. Auch im Schulsystem sieht der WU-Professor dringenden Änderungsbedarf.  Er sieht  gewichtige Probleme im Zentralbanksystem und warnt vor dem Crash des Dollars in den den nächsten Monaten als realistisches Szenario. Lediglich die Absprache mit China verzögern den unausweichlichen Absturz.</p>
<p>Nach den Statements der DiskutantInnen hatte das Publikum die Gelegenheit, selbst Fragen an das Podium zu stellen.</p>
<p>Weblinks:</p>
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<li><a title="Youtube: Zeitgeist - Moving Forward" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w" target="_blank">Youtube: Zeitgeist &#8211; Moving Forward</a></li>
<li><a title="Zeitgeist Movement Österreich" href="http://zeitgeist-movement.at/" target="_blank">Zeitgeist-Movement Österreich</a></li>
<li><a title="Offical Website Zeitgeist Movie" href="http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/" target="_blank">Zeitgeist Movie Website</a> &#8211; Frei zugängliche Videostreams der Filme Zeitgeist &amp; Zeitgeist Addendum</li>
<li><a title="Zum Interview auf Youtube" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw9IHJNB75E" target="_blank">Who is Peter Joseph?</a> &#8211; Interview mit dem Regisseur der Zeitgeist Filme auf YouTube</li>
<li><a href="http://www.monetative.de/" target="_blank">Monetative.de</a> &#8211; Initiative</li>
<li><a title="Steuerboykott" href="http://www.steuerboykott.org/" target="_blank">Steuerboykott</a></li>
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		<title>Famished!? &#8211; Answers to the Global Food Crisis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is speculation on commodities, land grabbing and trade policy connected with the food crisis?]]></description>
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<td width="600">Organized by <a href="http://www.vidc.org/" target="_blank">VIDC</a><br />
<strong>Ausgehungert!?</strong> Was haben Spekulation auf Rohstoffe, „Landraub“ und Handelspolitik mit der Krise zu tun? Antworten auf die globale Nahrungsmittelkrise<br />
Vienna &#8211; November 16th 2010</td>
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<td width="600"><strong>Speakers</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Anuradha Mittal</strong>, <a href="http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/">Oakland Institute</a>, California &#8211; <a href="http://etalks.tv/blog/2009/11/11/anuradha-mittal/" target="_blank">Bio</a></li>
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<blockquote><p>Finance and Hunger: Speculation on Food and (Mis)Investment in Agriculture (Land Grabbing)</p></blockquote>
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<li><strong>Michelle Pressend</strong>, <a href="http://www.ejn.org.za/"> Economic Justice Network (EJN)</a>, <a href="http://www.lrs.org.za/">Labour Research Services (LRS)</a> , Kapstadt, South Africa &#8211; <a href="http://etalks.tv/blog/2009/11/11/michelle-pressend/" target="_blank">Bio</a></li>
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<blockquote><p>Trade and Hunger: Export Subsidies and Free Trade Agreements (EPAs)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Moderation</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Elfriede Schachner</strong>, VIDC</li>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;" width="600"><strong>Background</strong><strong> </strong>In early 2008, prices for staple foods have increased dramatically: the price of wheat has increased in one year by 130%. Especially in poor countries in the global south, where people spend 50-70% of their income on food, this had catastrophic effects. Today, two years later, the reports of food riots in developing countries have largely vanished from the headlines. The hunger has remained. According to the UN Sub-Saharan Africa, extreme poverty increased by 8%, so price increases for food have ruined the success in reducing poverty  in the years 1990-2004.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today the reports of food riots have largely vanished from the headlines. The hunger has remained.</p></blockquote>
<p>The conference analyzes the structural causes of the food crisis. To what extent are financial speculations on food, misguided local agricultural policy and land grabbing involved in the tightening of the problem of global hunger? How does the trade policy of the North relate to the problems? Specifically, can Africa in general benefit from free trade agreements (EPAs)? Why have many developing countries that were food exporters in the 1970s, have become net importers of food in recent years?</p>
<blockquote><p>Why have many developing countries have become net importers of food in recent years?</p></blockquote>
<p>The participants of the event discuss possible solutions, proposals for reform and ways out of the food crisis.  What specific strategies are needed? What (new) challenges for development policy arise?</td>
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<td width="600"><em><em>Weblinks</em></em><a href="http://www.tni.org/paper/global-capitalism-challenges-and-alternatives-south">The Crisis’ and the Crises of Global Capitalism &#8211; Challenges for, and Alternatives from &#8216;The South</a>’ &#8211; Dot Keet, Transnational Institute</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/?q=node/view/444" target="_blank">Hunger and Poverty</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/foodcrisis/" target="_blank">World Bank &#8211; Food Crisis</a></p>
<p><em>Publications on Amazon</em></p>
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<li><strong>Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries</strong></li>
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